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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'More missionaries',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I agree that it&apos;s amazing the normal distribution can approximate so many other distributions, though I always have to question the tactic of approximation itself.
			It&apos;s the sort of thing that can be useful when not enough hard data is available, but I think people have a tendency to use it even when exact measurements and calculations are not only possible, but completely feasible.
			In short, approximation is something that gets overused.
			It&apos;s like recursion: powerful and usable in a lot of places, but it should only actually be used in the select few cases in which it&apos;s actually necessary.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I don&apos;t think the normal distribution models things that are evenly distributed; it&apos;s the uniform distribution that does that.
			Instead, the normal distribution models things in which the observed values are highly clustered.
			Like you said, almost all observed values will be within three standard deviations of the mean, yet all real values are observable.
			As you move out from the centre, the number of observed values diminishes rapidly, which is the exact opposite of an even distribution.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		Another pair of missionaries dropped by.
		I swear, they always come by when I&apos;m headed out to work and I&apos;m running slightly late.
	</p>
	<p>
		That&apos;s not even true though, to be honest.
		It just feels that way.
		I only have three data points though.
		This will be the second set of missionaries here to save my soul with their church, both of which arrived under the conditions I described.
		I third pair though hunted me down after I moved, searching for my past identity, or rather, someone that supposedly had my former middle name and surname as their given name and surname.
		It was too big of a coincidence.
		They were looking for me.
		Anyway, if I recall correctly, the pair looking specifically for me didn&apos;t come as I was headed out to work, slightly late.
	</p>
	<p>
		So I sent them away just as before.
		They say they&apos;ll be back next Saturday, this time at about 11:00, when I&apos;ll actually have time to talk with them.
		We&apos;ll see how that goes.
		When they inevitably ask if I have questions, I&apos;ll ask them how their church feels about us queers.
		Most Christian variants don&apos;t seem to be too fond of queers.
		They think we either need to change or live our entire lives without sex.
		Both are unreasonable expectations.
		I&apos;m also curious about how convincing they can be about their religion.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="theft">
	<h2>Theft</h2>
	<p>
		A workmate bought an expensive gaming system in the way to work today.
		Before they even got a chance to use it, it got stolen.
		People are terrible.
		One of the bosses wrote it off as a painful lesson they needed to learn.
		The other was upset mostly because it was one of our own workmates that&apos;d committed the theft; the system was in another room far behind the counter where no customer could have seen or reached it.
		They kept going on about how it would&apos;ve been understandable if some random stranger had taken it, but it was terrible that one of our workmates would have done it.
		People are terrible though.
		Being one of our workmates doesn&apos;t really make someone automatically not terrible.
	</p>
</section>
END
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